Sharp County record., 1887-03-17

Cu,RGEs OF corruption are made against
nublic officials of the corporation of Lon
don, and an investigation has been Or
dered.
SARAH JANE ROBINSON has indictments
pending against her at Boston charging
her with numbering six men by poison.
THE briefs in the cases of the Chicago
Anarchists have been completed, and were
filed at Ottawa, Ill, on the I'd.
A FOLDING-BED factory at chicago was
burned on the 1st, and during the fire TWO
firemen were severely injured by fall.
TIE chief of police of Cleveland mas
finally made known officially who were
the "fur robbers" and Ravenna mur-
derers.
ADDISON WATTROUs, a prominent dry
goods merchant of Waverly, n y, COM
mitted suicide on the 1st by shooting HIM
self through the heart.
A PORTLAND (Ore.) dispatch ssys that
the Legislature of British Columbia mas
suspended the city charter Of vancouver
and that an armed force will be sent tc
capture the white men who committed the
late outrages on the Chinese colony.
TWENTY THOUSAND persons are homeless
by reason of the recent earthquake IN
Italy. The material losses are estimated
at $4,000, 900, falling mostly upon indus
triOus villagers.
JAMES LEWIS, a prominent citizen OF
Rockford, Ia, laboring under a tit OF tenn
porary insanity, drowned himself at tha'
place on the 1st.
Riots have occurred in Sardinia, arising
out of the threatened failure of two work
ingmens savings banks The Italian Gov
ernment has sent experts to examine the
books of the institutions.
AN epidemic of measles is raging IN the
Ridge Avenue Orphans Home, at Ale
gheny City. Pa. Fifty of the children are
i'll with the disease, some half dozen or
more deaths having occurred, and the
physicians and attendants are appre-
hensive of the safety of the other in
mates.
On the I'd three ladies, while boat-rld'
ing, lost their lives in KanaWha river
West Virginia.
IN the case of Wakefield Gains (cOlored),
whose dismembered body was found in
creek near Eddington, Bucks County, Pa,
February II, the coroner'S jury rendered
a verdicf, on the "a that Games came tC
his death at the hands of George Wilson,
and that Mrs. Tabbs was accessory to the
crime.
On the Sd two men named Sam Hayes
and Adolphus Saunders were arrested in
elegant quarters in Fortysixth street,
New York, for completely in selling
''green goods"
THE steamer Fleetwood burst her boiler
on the Ohio river on the 4th and a num-
Der of the crew fatally injured
THE Supreme Court of Missouri has rem
dered its decision in the Wittrock habeas
corpus case releasing Warden Marina
duke; and Messenger Fotheringham Will
have to be content with the dispositions
already taken.
GEORGE FRANKLIN ANDERSON, the Amer
lean swindler, was convicted at London
on the 4th and sentenced to long term OF
years in prison.
A GANG of swindlers have beer run
down in New York and lodged in the
Tombs Their speciality was collecting
English fortunes for ''next of kim"
INCENDIARY fires ragged during all night
of the Sd in the section surrounding
IS IN Ireland ,vTIhbe The payment OF rent
A PITCHED battle occurred in Arizona on
the 4th between local officers and Mexican
regular troops, because the latter invaded
United States territory and resisted arrest
One Mexican soldier is reported wounded,
and more trouble is expected.